River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

face at point about one mile south
east Of Chelsea. Its extent has not
been ascertained.
A meeting of the Democratic State
Committee is to be held within the next
two weeks for the purpose of electing a
new chairman. Ellis b. Usher will
probably be chosen.
At the corning election the question
whether to raise $4,000 by taxation to
commence the erection of a soldiers
monument in Dodgecounty will be sub
mitted to the voters of that county.
Grant county can boast of as old, if
not the Oldest married couple in Wis
consin, they being the father and
mother of ID. c. Phillips, of Rockville,
both being 80 years old or thereabouts
At Milwaukee, Judge Small. charged
with unprofcssional conduct in conse-
quence of alleged double dealing in a
divorce case, it being shown that he
shared in the fees paid by both plaintiff
and defendant, was disbarred from
practice for six months by Judge Ben
net
Thomas Flanagan, of Pewaukee,
died with what may think was hydro
phohia, He was bitten when but three
years old by a dog, and little was
thought of it until lately, when he was
taken with a fit. This was followed
by another in about month, and this
econd one) third, which killed him,
W. t. Steele. the Dakota banker who
was reported to have failed to pay de-
positors their money, was formerly
resident of Milwaukee, and is well
known through Southern Wisconsin,
having for many years served as a con-
ductor on the Chicago. Milwaukee &
st. Paul Railway. An investigation
has proven the reports to have had no
foundation whatsoever.
The man and woman arrested at
Minneapolis, supposed to have eloped
from Waupaca, Wis, prove to be George
Wheaton, of Waseca. Mimi. and Mrs.
Emma Hanson of GAINESVILLE, Wis. f.
o. Fouster, representing the North
western Tobacco Company of Edgerton.
Wis, arrived with the Sheriff of Vase
ca County. He says Wheadon travelled
for his company last fall. The tobacco
man looked up his agents record and
claims that his real wife was living in
poverty with her three children
at Morelands, near Chicago, and that
the woman at Jaresville was the wife
of Robert Hanson. Wheaton and the
woman lived at GAINESVILLE for several
weeks and came to Minneapolis about
Jan. IA.
The Washington National Tribune of
a recent date makes the following men
ton of Gen. Geo. f. Bryant that Wis
consin people will value: Among the
western regiments of the Seventeenth
corps, the 18th Wisconsin was one of
the most conspicuous. 1t was kept up
nearly TO the maximum by fresh re-
cruits, whom it converted into veterans
in short order. 1t had an instrumental
band which was the pride of the regi-
ment when on parade and in its hours
of camp life, and its solace in the many
hard marches for which the regiment,
among other things, was famous. And
last, but not least, it had for its colonel
a man who was universally beloved by
his regiment, and who was at the head
of IA united family of brothers-in-arms,
Brave as lion, unflinching in fortitude.
courage and persistency in battle,
George E. Bryant had a heart which
apparently filled his whole being and
made him kind and tender to all. In
recognition of his gallantry and eminent
services he received brevet commits
sion as brigadier general Since the
war he has resided at his home in
Madison, serving a number of years as
a postmaster of that city. At the 21st
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic, department of Wisconsin.
where one of Gen. Bryant's most trust
ed officers was elected commander,
after the adoption of appropriate reso-
buttons, Commander Michael Griffin
pronounced an eloquent eulogy OH Gen.
Logan.